It feels like it's been a long time coming, but we're finally back to fantasy football. It was a fun week 1 with several games going back and forth and coming down to the wire on Monday Night Football. But let's not bury the lede -- BYU finally beat Utah and everything else good this week was gravy.
Game Recaps
Skyler vs Tommy: In what looked to be a promising game with the potential to be the nail-biter of the week, Darren Waller ended up with 19 targets. Sure, some of them were some garbage throws or Waller was double covered, but it's hard to fail with that many opportunities. He led the NFL in targets this week, 3 ahead of Amari Cooper, and 9 more than the second most targeted tight end. I don't imagine this happens every week, but if it does (or if it's at least indicative of a high floor), Waller will ball out this year. Going into Monday night, Tommy had a 6 point lead, which was well within the realm of possibility for Lamar Jackson to overcome, but he wasn't able to do so. Tommy ended up with 3 players with 20+ points, which was enough to cover for half of his team getting <6.3 points this week. The only silver lining for Skyler is this should be a floor week for him. He had a total of 3 team touchdowns for the week, which was the lowest in the league. Then again, the person who got last this week had the most team touchdowns, so maybe it means nothing.
Chad vs Brady: This was another contender for the nail-biter of the week with a 7 point differential, but it ended up losing out on that honor in the end. However, it did ween the weekly bonanza award. Chad was the highest scorer of the week, and Brady was the 4th highest scorer (the North is back baby!), which means Brady ended up as the unluckiest team of the week. Chad was led to victory by his kicker scoring 11 points on Monday night. It was close there for a while, and I'm sure Chad was sweating bullets when he was down by <1 point around halftime, but I think we all knew Oakland would at least get a field goal again, if not an extra point. Brady had a career game from Joe Mixon (don't fact-check me on that. It's truthiness Tuesday) and started out Thursday Night with 56 combined points from Dak and Lamb, and he let it go to waste. Chad only had two people score 23+ points, where Brady had three such players, but Chad was able to make up ground in the middle by having 7 of his 9 players score 10.7+ points, and Brady had 4 players score <10.7.
Matt vs Rob: Stop me if you've heard this one before -- Rob's opponent started out great, so instead of picking up a kicker or DST, Rob decided to sit out this week and play for the #1 waiver pick. Rob gave up thanks to three 20+ point players from Matt, and 8 of his 9 players score 9+ points. Rob started out great with 35+ from Tom Brady, and even another 20+ from Lockett, but it wasn't enough to overcome 0 from Russel Gage and <29 from his first 3 round draft picks. Matt ended up as the 2nd highest scorer of the week, so we can't blame Rob too much for giving up.
Brandon vs Trevor: The Monday Nightmare and the nail-biter of the night all in one. Brandon started with a narrow lead after Sunday night, and then Trevor's DST started and Trevor took a 13ish point lead. He then had to watch as the raiders slowly whittled away the Raven's score. If it's any consolation to Trevor, it's not like he was 10 yards away from getting more points. He would have had a shot with something like one fewer TD scored, 100 fewer yards, and an extra sack. Bet let's be honest -- had Trevor not tried to get cute with starting Cooks over Swift last minute, he narrowly wins this game.
TJ vs Jordan: This game stole the battle of ineptitude by about 2 points from Skyler and Chad thanks to two of Jordan's players scoring <3 points. However, I'm sure he will be consoled by his 8 point victory. Jordan was able to recover from those low scores by having his two highest scorers outscore everyone TJ's team. Sometimes it's depth that wins you a week (Chad), and other times, it's thanks to Kyler Murray torching the Titan's and scoring 40+ points.
Tyler vs Kyle: This was another game that started out close with one team winning, and then another team taking the lead by end of the night. Kyle started off strong Sunday but had to be worried seeing that Tyler had 3 players playing on Monday Night. Tyler was able to come from behind thanks to a 2 TD came from Jacobs, and good enough games from Andrews and Tucker. Tyler probably wanted more than 14 points from Andrews and Tucker, but he'll take the victory and move on to next week.
Award Season
BYU for beating Utah
MVP: Kyler Murray was the only started to score 40+ and his team won by <10, so it's not like those 40 points were just running up the score.
LVP: I hate picking people who get injured, but Raheem Mostert finished with 2 points (20 yards on 2 carries) and then left hurt. The guy who took over for him had 16 points. Kyle lost by 8. I think it's safe to assume a healthy Mostert scores at least 10 points and gets Kyle the win.
Unluckiest Team of the Week: Brady for being the 4th leading scorer but going up against the leading scorer.
Luckiest Team of the Week: Tyler wins this for two reasons -- he was the lowest scoring winning team (he was the 8th highest scorer), and if Mostert stays healthy, Kyle likely wins.
Game Previews
Skyler (10) vs Chad (1): Skyler has 3 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. Chad has 1 player on Thursday and 0 players in primetime.
Tommy (4) vs Brady (7): Tommy has no players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. Brady has no players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime.
Brandon (3) vs Matt (2): Brandon has 0 players on Thursday and 3 players in primetime. Matt has 0 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. Based on the matchup, this could be the weekly bonaza
Rob (12) vs Trevor (8): Rob has 0 players on Thursday and 0 players in primetime. Trevor has 0 players on Thursday and 2 players in primetime. Based on seedings alone, this could be the battle of ineptitude.
Tyler (6) vs TJ (9): Tyler has 1 player on Thursday and 4 players in primetime. TJ has 1 player on Thursday and 3 players in primetime. Tyler has Aaron Rodgers on Monday Night, TJ historically suffers from the Monday Nightmares. Just getting this out of the way now.
Jordan (5) vs Kyle (11): Jordan has 0 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime. Kyle has 0 players on Thursday and 1 player in primetime.
Good luck to everyone but Chad this week.
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